we have a BDC running locally, so I can authenticate users against the BDC?
could you be more specific?

thanks

"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <willy.denoyette@pandora.be> wrote in message
news:e8aBs0adCHA.2376@tkmsftngp10...
> User authentication works against the local SAM or a Domain authority
(Domain Controller Account database).
> You can't authenticate against another servers local SAM .
>
> Willy.
>
>
> "Kevin Yu" <kyu@nrcan.gc.ca> wrote in message
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> > I have previously post another thread about this, the title is"
> > Authenticating users on BDC", but the description of my problem is
little
> > confusing, so here
> > I will just make it clear.
> >
> > I have a asp.net project working fine with windows authentication, but
the
> > user/pwd list is on the same machine with the asp.net server. what I
want to
> > do is when user login(windows integrated authentication mode), the
> > authenticating process should get the user name and password and
validate
> > them against the user
> > list on another computer/server. how can I go about and do that?
(hosting
> > the asp.net app on another computer/server is not an option)
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
>
>

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